Start Date
27-4-2023 9:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistant bacteria have been on the rise, causing many of the current antibiotics to be ineffective in treating antibiotic resistant infections. Antibiotics can be produced from some strains of bacteria, and the students at Johnson County Community College have partnered with the Tiny Earth Network to find new strains of bacteria that could potentially produce new antibiotics. Microbes from the soil have been isolated and tested against safe relatives of the ESKAPE pathogens, bacterial species that cause most of the antibiotic resistant infections. One of the isolated microbes, Second Favorite Child, was able to inhibit the growth of most of the safe relatives and could potentially be used to produce a new antibiotic.
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From Second Favorite Child to Treating Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens: The Search for Soil Microbes to Produce Novel Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistant bacteria have been on the rise, causing many of the current antibiotics to be ineffective in treating antibiotic resistant infections. Antibiotics can be produced from some strains of bacteria, and the students at Johnson County Community College have partnered with the Tiny Earth Network to find new strains of bacteria that could potentially produce new antibiotics. Microbes from the soil have been isolated and tested against safe relatives of the ESKAPE pathogens, bacterial species that cause most of the antibiotic resistant infections. One of the isolated microbes, Second Favorite Child, was able to inhibit the growth of most of the safe relatives and could potentially be used to produce a new antibiotic.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Jamie Cunningham, Biology.